Baobab - a novel
Title | Baobab - a novel PDF eBook |
Author | Larry Hill |
Publisher | First Edition Design Pub. |
Pages | |
Release | 2019-05-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1506908136 |
Doctor Michael Eisenstat of Beverly Hills, seeking adventure, moves with his wife, to West Africa. He joins the US Foreign Service taking a job with the American Embassy in Donoulu, Zinani, a nation controlled by a ruthless dictator. There, he and his small cadre of fellow diplomat, led by a hapless Ambassador, observe and become all too involved in a bloody coup de-etat.
Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree
Title | Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree PDF eBook |
Author | Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2018-09-04 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0062696742 |
Based on interviews with young women who were kidnapped by Boko Haram, this poignant novel by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani tells the timely story of one girl who was taken from her home in Nigeria and her harrowing fight for survival. Includes an afterword by award-winning journalist Viviana Mazza. A new pair of shoes, a university degree, a husband—these are the things that a girl dreams of in a Nigerian village. And with a government scholarship right around the corner, everyone can see that these dreams aren’t too far out of reach. But the girl’s dreams turn to nightmares when her village is attacked by Boko Haram, a terrorist group, in the middle of the night. Kidnapped, she is taken with other girls and women into the forest where she is forced to follow her captors’ radical beliefs and watch as her best friend slowly accepts everything she’s been told. Still, the girl defends her existence. As impossible as escape may seem, her life—her future—is hers to fight for.
The Abandoned Baobab
Title | The Abandoned Baobab PDF eBook |
Author | Ken Bugul |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780813927374 |
Despite its unflinching look at our darkest impulses, and at the stark facts of being a colonized African, the book is ultimately inspirational, for it exposes us to a remarkable sensibility and a hard-won understanding of one's place in the world.CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French
The Expedition to the Baobab Tree
Title | The Expedition to the Baobab Tree PDF eBook |
Author | Wilma Stockenstrom |
Publisher | Archipelago |
Pages | 137 |
Release | 2014-04-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1935744925 |
Learning to survive in the harsh interior of Southern Africa, a former slave seeks shelter in the hollow of a baobab tree. For the first time since she was a young girl her time is her own, her body is her own, her thoughts are her own. In solitude, she is finally able to reflect on her own existence and its meaning, bringing her a semblance of inner peace. Scenes from her former life shuttle through her mind: how owner after owner assaulted her, and how each of her babies were taken away as soon as they were weaned, their futures left to her imagination. We are the sole witnesses to her history: her capture as a child, her tortured days in a harbor city on the eastern coast as a servant, her journey with her last owner and protector, her flight, and the kaleidoscopic world of her baobab tree. Wilma Stockenström's profound work of narrative fiction, translated by Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee, is a rare, haunting exploration of enslavement and freedom.
The Baobab Tree
Title | The Baobab Tree PDF eBook |
Author | Louie Stowell |
Publisher | Usborne Publishing Ltd |
Pages | 35 |
Release | 2015-10-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1474905528 |
When the gods create a talking tree, they soon regret it because it won’t be quiet. So they turn it upside down and bury its head in the dirt. The classic African folktale, specially retold as part of the Usborne Reading Programme for children just starting to read alone. This ebook includes audio and reading-related puzzles. "Crack reading and make confident and enthusiastic readers with this fantastic reading programme." - Julia Eccleshare
Siberian Haiku
Title | Siberian Haiku PDF eBook |
Author | Jurga Vile |
Publisher | SelfMadeHero |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2020-03-17 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 9781910593776 |
One morning in June 1941, a quiet village in Central Lithuania is shaken out of its slumber by the sudden arrival of the Soviet Army. Eight-year-old Algiukas awakes to the sound of Russian soldiers pounding on the door. His family are given ten minutes to pack up their things. They are not told where they're going or for how long. An airless freight train carries them from the fertile lands of rural Lithuania to the snowy plains of the Siberian taiga. There, in the distant, dismal North, they begin a life marked by endless hunger and unrelenting cold. And yet the darkness of exile is lightened, for Algiukas, by flights of imagination. This curious, brave and adaptable child transforms hardship into adventure. Drawing on her father's exile in Siberia, writer Jurga Vile brings to light a neglected, even suppressed, episode from the history of the Soviet Union. Beautifully drawn by Lina Itagaki, Siberian Haikuuses the child's perspective to tell an unforgettable story of courage and human endurance.
The Expedition to the Baobab Tree
Title | The Expedition to the Baobab Tree PDF eBook |
Author | Wilma Stockenstrom |
Publisher | Archipelago |
Pages | 137 |
Release | 2014-04-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1935744925 |
Learning to survive in the harsh interior of Southern Africa, a former slave seeks shelter in the hollow of a baobab tree. For the first time since she was a young girl her time is her own, her body is her own, her thoughts are her own. In solitude, she is finally able to reflect on her own existence and its meaning, bringing her a semblance of inner peace. Scenes from her former life shuttle through her mind: how owner after owner assaulted her, and how each of her babies were taken away as soon as they were weaned, their futures left to her imagination. We are the sole witnesses to her history: her capture as a child, her tortured days in a harbor city on the eastern coast as a servant, her journey with her last owner and protector, her flight, and the kaleidoscopic world of her baobab tree. Wilma Stockenström's profound work of narrative fiction, translated by Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee, is a rare, haunting exploration of enslavement and freedom.